I have something interesting for you all!
I was test flying my new Dropship about 10 mins ago, Got into a fight with a wanted asp at one point both of us ended up facing each other when it feel't like my ship got "rammed" or knocked around I also got the hazardous Substance detected warning and Internal damage warning as this happened
Most of my modules went down to around 70%, Wanna know the weird thing? While i was regaining control from the bumpyness I also noticed the asp had been Knocked back and was struggling back to position its self almost as if something went off in-between our ships, mind you this is in a RES in the bubble I didnt have time to check if the asp got internal damage sadly

But the damage my modules received was the same as my anaconda got when it got hit by thargon swarms....Also adding on the knock-back experienced was hard enough that it took about 3 seconds to recover control(longer for the asp) Not sure what it is but its similar to the Reddit Cmdr who got pulled out of SC and got the same warnings(Except he was 5k away from the bubble)
EDIT: just encase anyone was wondering the fight was also pretty high above the site so it wasn't a asteroid hitting us

I wish i could have taken a screenshot at the time(Was too shocked at the time cause it really did a number to my ship) it hasn't happened since but i haven't been been in the RES for a couple days as i've been doing other stuff, But i can say I got hit by something and so did the asp that was hazardous, could be a bug or Something else but it was really similar to the guy who got pulled out and experienced the same(Shame i didn't have a screenshot like he did tho)
(note it would be nice to know if anyone else has experianced random hazardous damage in normal zones (so not thargoids) cause well Its only been like 2 reports of it)

THARGOID DATA GATHERING EFFORT

Alright, let's do some field research, commanders.

Hypothesis: The Thargoid interactions are spreading, affecting new systems on a daily basis.Proof: Very poor, a few commanders as witnesses. No formal data gathering has been done.Proposed research: Field Data Gathering to answer two questions:

If nothing else, we need to establish whether the 'Thargoid Zone' is similar to the UA shell - i.e. constrained to a region centred on a location like Merope. It's only by mapping it that we can then say whether it changes

If nothing else, we need to establish whether the 'Thargoid Zone' is similar to the UA shell - i.e. constrained to a region centred on a location like Merope. It's only by mapping it that we can then say whether it changes

THIS 1000x

I've been looking for info about how widespread the reports have been. Need to be compiling data, can't have everyone being a... loose Canonn >_>

Don't know where to put this; didn't see a separate thread on the Barnacle Forest on Hyades Sector AQ-Y D81 C2 -

Decided that since I flew 135klys I should hang out a couple days in the Barnacle Forest. Followed a bunch of Scavengers around; they aren't dripping green goo but appear to be transferring something or picking up something on the big barnies - they "patrol" a sector, go for the nearest barnie and stick to it with thier mouth for about 15 seconds. No light or green transferrence like we've seen before in the Thargoid Structures.

Here's the Forest from about 1.5k to show the main layout and the gas that is filling the valley:

You can see the rough 5-point-star pattern of the forest growths, which is different from the usual octagons... it reminds me of the Nursery in Alien.

Here's one from right above the central barnacle:

You can see the rough octagonal the outlier barnacles make around this central, larger one.

Now, I was following Scavengers for most of the day and kept on picking up something on the SRV radar that was in the top bands, where you normally see human ships, or POIs or skimmers. There were none. I also drove around and shot various spikes/spires & mostly collected SRV fuel and a couple meta-alloys; there weren't any of the usual Outcrops or mesosiderites or whatall in the forest proper; only by going well away from the area did I start to pick up some. Still kept getting this radar-ghost on the SRV scanner.

So I followed it to the [surprise] central barnacle:

Here's an image of the central barnacle from the SRV that shows co-ordinates and the radar screen:

You can see the blip on the radar. You can circle around the whole thing and that top "broken" signal will always point to that center barnacle. I checked many other barnacles; they didn't have a signal like this. I shot up everything that I could around it and ferried the mats very far away from the whole forest. I checked to see if perhaps there was a "regular" ore-giving rock that maybe the main barnacle was sitting on, but this signal appeared nowhere else in the forest and there were no other normal rocks on the scanner in the whole area.

This central Barnacle is also the one giving off the most music/sound; not the rumbling, breaking one but a singing one of its own.

That's where I left it; still thinking about it. But whatever is growing down there is... stupendously large.

Hypothesis: The Thargoid interactions are spreading, affecting new systems on a daily basis.Proof: Very poor, a few commanders as witnesses. No formal data gathering has been done.Proposed research: Field Data Gathering to answer two questions:

Please, Commanders, help the Canonn Institute to gather this data! Its results may prove crucial to predict the Thargoid's movements!

Do we have a way to get this info edited into the first posts of one or more of the stickies in this forum?

I'd been asking if something like it was happening, and I just saw someone asking the same thing on one of the other stickies. I don't know who (if anyone) is in charge of updating the FPs of the new "multithreaded" threadnought, but I feel like a lot of other people have also been looking for this kind of initiative. CIRG are the ones to do it, but need people to know it's there before they can start submitting reports.

You can see the blip on the radar. You can circle around the whole thing and that top "broken" signal will always point to that center barnacle. I checked many other barnacles; they didn't have a signal like this. I shot up everything that I could around it and ferried the mats very far away from the whole forest. I checked to see if perhaps there was a "regular" ore-giving rock that maybe the main barnacle was sitting on, but this signal appeared nowhere else in the forest and there were no other normal rocks on the scanner in the whole area.

This central Barnacle is also the one giving off the most music/sound; not the rumbling, breaking one but a singing one of its own.

Yes, this is the same at the double-barnie sites too. The 'main' barnacle is the one that shows up on the scanner and is also the one that the Thargoid will always visit.